Greatest Hits Vol Tracks Dunhill

About 8 years ago I attended a new hip-hop artisan showcase at the club called The Knitting Factory in Manhattan. Even a bit tipsy and still buzzed from having met Guru from Gang Starr a group of cats from North Carolina hit the stage and blew my mind. They called their group Little Brother, which was kind of odd to me at the time but I was sure they were destined for big things. I just knew these country boys were going to blow up.

Little Brother went on to release six fantastic albums, the best two and hip-hop classics being Chitlin’ Circuit Mixtape and The Minstrel Show, but the group never in truth caught on with the masses. Maybe it had to do with the two members, Phonte and Big Pooh, propagating themselves too thin with side projects and other groups or because we live in a time in which the masses are programmed to “like” sure artists. Whatever the reason in 2010 Phonte and Big Pooh decisive to end the group and go their discerned ways.

After the demise of the group Little Brother, Phonte without apparent effort transitioned into his other project, the group The Foreign Exchange. Many humans didn’t recognise what would take place to the other half of Little Brother, Rapper Big Pooh.

I feel that the end of Little Brother might have been the best thing that happened to Big Pooh’s career as he may now shine on his on and not compromise on the harder edge he brings to hip-hop. An edge that had to take a backseat to an R&B sound in Little Brother because Phonte wanted to be an R&B singer more than an MC.

This month Phonte freed what is actually his third solo album and has actually found his sound and does it huge for I choose as the best album of the month.

The Best Hip-Hop Album of April 2011 is Fat Boy Fresh Vol.1 by Big Pooh.

With a immense ear for beats and a clear love for old hip-hop Big Pooh does an amazing occupation developing a simple yet driving sound that stays unfeigned the genre without electronic gimmicks, out of tune hipster sung hooks and odes to tight jeans wearing punks looking for something cool to play while doing tricks on their skateboards. This is straight grown man hip-hop, like or hate it. I love it and can’t get sufficient of it.

Big Pooh in truth made a daring move but only putting out a 42 minute 12 song album. Three or four bad songs could have genuinely put an end to his career but the cat comes through like a champ and bangs from begin to finish.

The song that I only give three stars out of five is titled Access and altho it is not a bad song it just seems to over formulated and invented to appeal to the ordinary southern sound as if he’s looking for a hit rather of preserving his integrity as an artist. Easy for me to say since it isn’t my obligation to trade his album but I have to be honest. Maybe it’ll grow on me but it prolly won’t. The rest of the songs are far and away the best hip-hop freed in April.

Fat Boy Fresh Vol.1 by Big Pooh, get it today and take pleasure in persons stopping to ask you “Who dat is?!?” when you bang it in your trunk.

Program your mp3 player with these tracks:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12

Greatest Hits Vol Tracks Dunhill Pic

Greatest Hits Vol Tracks Dunhill Image

Greatest Hits Vol Tracks Dunhill Image

Greatest Hits Vol Tracks Dunhill Pic